Its apple season in Simrishamn now and there are fresh, juicy apples swinging on their branches all around us.
The Kivik apple fair is next week and again there will be a giant poster made entirely of apples.
This is last year's Adam and Eve.
Our morning walk seems to change daily as the colours get richer and more beautiful.
The air is cooler, but the sun still shines brightly. The wild geese fly over us and we sometimes wish we could join them on their flights over Skåne.
I love these vintage magazines...
The images are so wonderful and tell such great stories.
The fashions are divine...
and the cutest books ever.
Our harbour, our town, our friends, our jobs, our forests
will all be so very sorely missed.
but I will certainly try.
The Cantina in Locorotondo is an old and majestic building.
The neighbours live in Trullis and the 100 000 litre wine tanks hover over our heads.
Lugging giant hoses, analysing grape samples and cleaning out tanks is messy, heavy work,
but I love it!
Chardonnay rules our noses and lips these days, though I must admit, at night I prefer to drink the Primitivo or ice cold Rosato,
It isnt the cleanest job in the world...
but what a beautiful town to live and work in!
I am back working in the winery in Locorotondo, Italy this month.
One of my favourite places in Puglia is Polignano al Mare.
There is a restaurant in a cave which is just amazing.
You can hear the water below you and watch the boats sailing inside the cave under your table.
The staff are fantastic and we dined like kings and queens on fish and champagne and Richi.
The next day we took our own boat and shouted up to the waiters who pretended to jump in our boats from up above. Throwing cigarettes down and being so beautifully Italian.
There's something so special about a girl and her mum enjoying Sweden in the best month of the year and having the time to explore it all.
To walk and horse ride through the forests picking and stringing rasberries, blueberries, strawberries and cherries.
I feel blessed indeed.
Such a beautiful antique/flea market at Porte de Clignancourt in Paris
Lovely old linens and fabrics...
Boxes of treasures and house hold items...
Letters from loved ones long forgotten...
Good times shared...
Toys loved and disgarded...
Music practised and performed...
Keys to houses, gates and barns scattered all over the countryside...
Piles of treasures for everyone and anyone...
Just waiting to be discovered.
Another amazing weekend in my favourite city...
We did a house swap this time so our new friends got a garden, beach and forest in a Swedish village and we got a gorgeous apartment, a Christiana bike and one of the best cities in the world as our backyard.
What a great arrangement!
Now I might have to get a Carlsberg crate for the front!
Midsummer would have to be my favourite Swedish celebration. 
I love to make my flower crown in the morning and then ride our bikes along the Baltic Sea with the baskets full of picnic goodies.
We climb the hill and join our beautiful Simrishamn family and hundreds of other Swedes in a giant picnic.
We dance around the giant Maypole, decorated by local children and listen to the musicians.
Let's just hope it doesnt rain!
Don't these beautiful flowers remind you of ballet dancers? I found them in the forest this morning.
PS I was just told they are called 'Løytnantshjerte' in Danish, by the lovely Elsie Sophie
Just on the ballet theme, turn your sound up, take a breath and enjoy the next few minutes of Chanel beauty. Performed by The English National ballet's Senior Principal Ballerina 'Elena Glurdjidze', the Karl Lagerfeld original tutu, took 3 women, 100 hours to stitch.
Enjoy Elena performing 'The dying swan'.
Maja is my favourite Swedish children's book character.
She teaches children about the seasons...
about friendships...
about food...
about the alphabet...
about animals...
and about gardening and nature.
I think she is wonderful!
Just a quick taste of one of my favourite Danish designers- Noa Noa. They are stocked in a gorgeous shop which is 10 metres from my gate, so the temptation is there every day! I think their vision is so dreamy and mythical.
I got another award today. So lovely.
It is from the gorgeous blog 'abundance'. Definitely worth a look, just gorgeous.
I would like to pass it on to some of my favourites. Do your self a favour and visit them when you have a chance, you will be in for a treat!
1. Accept the award and post whoever gave it to you with name and link
2. Post 5 of your current favourites or new discoveries
3. Don't forget to contact them to pass on the good news!
As impatient as I was in the darkness of the Swedish winter for Summer, I must say I'm a bit sad to say goodbye to Spring.
I honestly believe that no human could ever make anything so beautiful as a flower.
Miranda in Picnic at hanging rock. Such a mesmerising movie by Peter Weir based on the book by Joan Lindsay.
Welcome to this beautiful world baby Miranda. May you find much joy and love within.
My lovely husband bought these back for me from Italy.
They are from 1951 and have such fabulous advertisments in them.
Viva Italia!
I want this shampoo so I can be fa la chioma bella!!!
Love these!
2 weeks ago I was in London and all of the tulips and blossom was out in the parks. It is hard to imagine at times as you sit gazing at the flowers in the warm sun, bees buzzing around you, that you are in a huge, bustling city.
The same can be said for Stockholm, where the city is overwhelmingly beautiful with tulips and spring bulbs at this time of the year.
The tulips are out in Simrishamn too and the town is just full of great big pots of them. Below are some comparison photos of the three towns.
I hope you enjoy them!
Simrishamn town centre
Stockholm town centre
London town centre
Gamla Simrishamn
Gamla Stockholm
Gamla London
Stockholm park
Simrishamn Park
London Park
Saturate myself in history...
The spring flowers certainly took center stage in Simrishamn this Easter. Daffodils, pansies, pussy willow and feathers featured everywhere from table tops, door steps, windows sills and churchyards.
The town was buzzing with visitors from all over, coming to buy art and admire the artists who opened their studios and galleries to share their work. So much inspiration and beauty to behold.
I feel very lucky to live in a such a beautiful town with so many talented people.
We are waiting for some tanks to fill so I have a little time to share
our life at the moment.
The town...
The Cantina...
